I Think That Things Are

Credentialing, Not Education, Has Become The Primary Business Of North American Universities.

As In The Pseudoscience Of Bloodletting, Just So In The Pseudoscience Of City Rebuilding And Planning, Years Of Learning And A Plethora Of Subtle And Complicated Dogma Have Arisen On A Foundation Of Nonsense.

There Are Dangers In Sentimentalizing Nature. Most Sentimental Ideas Imply, At Bottom, A Deep If Unacknowledged Disrespect. It Is No Accident That We Americans, Probably The World's Champion Sentimentalizers About Nature, Are At One And The Same Time Probably The World's Most Voracious And Disrespectful Destroyers Of Wild And Rural Countryside.

Being Human Is Itself Difficult, And Therefore All Kinds Of Settlements (except Dream Cities) Have Problems. Big Cities Have Difficulties In Abundance, Because They Have People In Abundance.

To Science, Not Even The Bark Of A Tree Or A Drop Of Pond Water Is Dull Or A Handful Of Dirt Banal. They All Arouse Awe And Wonder.